Analyst - VCA Digital Analyst

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

The Central Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) Digital Consulting Practice within VCA provides consulting solutions and services for Visa’s largest issuers in Canada and US. We are in love with digital analytics and push the boundaries on how we continuously reimagine our solutions for our clients.

The VCA team is looking for a Digital Analytics Analyst to join our digital consulting practice and play a role in developing high impact projects for Visa’s clients in the CEMEA region.  This role is responsible for the digital marketing planning, implementation, and optimization of customer search, retargeting strategies that drive acquisition, retention, and engagement programs for our client’s card portfolios. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker that seeks to innovative everything they touch, carries a disruptor mindset, and can articulate/create impactful presentations.

Specific responsibilities include:

·        Proactively engage with Visa internal teams in regular strategic & planning discussions

·        Leads consulting initiatives and contributes to closing engagement by identifying potential opportunities with Issuing Bank Partners.

·        Background and/or knowledge in digital affiliate strategy and tactics

·        Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.

·        Build solutions and actionable insights that will help clients to grow their portfolios and customer engagement in their core business

·        Partner with peers in other functional areas (marketing, sales, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources

·        Produce insights, analysis and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance for client priorities across the verticals and segments

·        Ability to effectively manipulate and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to determine meanings insights and recommendations for clients

·        Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, best practice documents and consulting approach that can be applied across VCA practice.

Incumbents applying for the role should be self-motivated, highly energized: detail-oriented individuals who will deliver strategic thought leadership, problem diagnostics and high impact solutions to clients support the growth and performance. Candidates must be able to develop enduring, strategic relationships with internal and external clients and across the Visa organization. 

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Basic Qualifications:
• 4 years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 3 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications:
• Nerd-out on GenAI and how we can shape the future of Digital UX with a digital strategy mindset
• Beyond a shadow of doubt storyteller and expert skills in PowerPoint to convey your message.
• Super stoked on how technology and FinTechs can be incorporated into reimaging the credit card industry
• Experience working with financial indicators to measure business performance. Significant focus on impacting ROI
• Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
• Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently
• Knowledge and understanding of banking operations and/ or payment schemes, including products & services, business systems and processes, marketing initiatives and card issuing experience
• You should be self-motivated, results-oriented individual with the ability to progress multiple priorities concurrently with the ability to drive an idea from start-to-finish!
• Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, able to work effectively in matrixed organization.

High preference will be given to individuals with previous management experience

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.